Chris Ziegler

The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, September 9 Pixies EL REY THEATRE Wild times in the world of Pixies -- original bassist Kim Deal is out, Kim Shattuck is in and all those people in L.A. who had Muffs and Pixies stickers on their hatchbacks/guitar c ... More >>

Music Picks: Anticon Anniversary, Rock the Bells, Murder By Death

Music Picks: Hard Summer, Sunset Strip Music Festival and Bob Dylan

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, July 22 HOTT MT THE ECHO Locals HOTT MT really got their band rolling after a surprise visit to Flaming Lips mastermind Wayne Coyne's doorstep -- yes, they drove to Oklahoma and showed up unannounced and ready to roc ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, July 1 Crazy Squeeze THE SATELLITE L.A.'s Crazy Squeeze (members of Stitches, Teenage Frames, Superbees and Richmond Sluts) hauled their entire debut album out of that rarefied moment when glam rock and pub rock were ... More >>

Music Picks: Beyoncé, Snoop Dogg and Crazy Squeeze

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Week

For any show in town see our regularly-updated concert calendar. Monday, April 29 Merx THE SMELL If dub spelunker Keith Hudson had gotten hold of synth-punks like Suicide or The Screamers, or if Chrome and PiL had been melted together by cosmic rays into one shrieking hunk of post-punk man-machine ... More >>

Music Picks: Shuggie Otis, The Rolling Stones, Juvenile

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, February 18 Om CENTER FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK Om's Al Cisneros is a cosmic explorer of the highest order, the kind of guy whose every musical effort is one more step along a spiral path to ... ultimate truth? Ultimate beauty? Something too ultimately primal and sacred for the guy who write ... More >>

Music Picks: Foxygen, Tomahawk and Nick Cave

Music Picks: FIDLAR, Muse and Lady Gaga

Music Picks: John Beasley, Down, and Tift Merritt

Music Picks: Lord Huron, Matthewdavid, Smell 15th Anniversary Party

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, December 31 Redd Kross, The Melvins ALEXANDRIA HOTEL Despite the myriad achievements of the human race throughout history -- moonshots, pyramids, penicillin and the late-night food truck -- one never-realized dream haunted civilization: getting Redd Kross and The Melvins to play on the same ... More >>

Music Picks: Fishbone, the Growlers, Redd Kross

Music Picks: Chino XL, Marissa Nadler, As Blood Runs Black

Music Picks: The Weeknd, That '70s Soul, Power of the Riff

Music Picks: Bloc Party, Metric, KROQ Acoustic Xmas

Music Picks: Lauryn Hill, Bad Brains, Shuggie Otis

Music Picks: Gary Clark Jr., Those Darlins, Wiz Khalifa

Music Picks: R. Kelly, Leonard Cohen, Cat Power

Music Picks: Lamb of God, Miike Snow, and Hanni El Khatib

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend: Oct. 19-21

Friday, October 19 Nosaj Thing LURE PATIO Nosaj Thing's 2009 album, Drift, was arguably the first in the trio of holy-shit records that made Low End Theory regulars -- and by extension, Los Angeles electronic music -- a global phenomenon. (The other two? Gaslamp Killer and Gonjasufi's A Sufi and a ... More >>

Music Picks: Robert Glasper, Nick Waterhouse, Omar Rodriguez Lopez

Music Picks: Neil Young, Aimee Mann, Low End Theory Anniversary

Music Picks: Eagle Rock Festival, New Order, Madonna

The Five Best Shows in Los Angeles This Week: Garbage, Nick Lowe, Culture Collide

Tuesday, October 2 Garbage WILTERN When they formed in 1994, future chart fixtures Garbage had the makings of a sterile vanity project. Created by veteran studio rats (including Butch Vig, producer of Nirvana's Nevermind), with a grafted-on unknown vocalist, their formula appeared better suited to ... More >>

Music Picks: Culture Collide, Nick Lowe, Screaming Females

Music Picks: Dublab Anniversary, Ladyhawke, Flying Lotus

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, September 17 Josh Nelson VITELLO'S Josh Nelson looks much younger than his 34 years but has already become a seasoned veteran and one of the most respected pianists on the L.A. music scene. Nelson's talents are strong enough to have won him a job as Natalie Cole's primary touring pianist w ... More >>

Music Picks: Fiona Apple, Austra, and the Hives

Music Picks: FYF Festival, Jillinda Palmer, Gaslamp Killer

Music Picks: As Blood Runs Black, Kelly Hogan, Regina Spektor

Also, Agalloch, Antibalas, Power of the Riff and others

Music Picks: Kaskade, Dirty Projectors, Ondatrópica

Music Picks: Rome, The xx, Aretha Franklin

Also, Cannibal Corpse, I See Hawks in L.A., Smokey Robinson and others

Music Picks: Hootenanny, The Moonbeams, Kamasi Washington

Also, Eleni Mandell, Endermen, The Lions

Music Picks: Cedric Gervais, Van Hunt, Jonathan Richman

Jimmy Cliff, Liars, Jesse Sykes

Also, New Edition, Kátia Moraes & Sambaguru, Milo Greene and others

Sun Araw, Eagles of Death Metal, Lil' Kim

Also, Harry Partch's Bitter Music, Jonneine Zapata, Alan Pasqua Trio and others

Kurt Vile, Santigold, Rusko

Also, Star & Dagger, Charli XCX, Church of Misery and others

Music Picks: Too $hort, Best Coast, Brad Mehldau Trio

Also, Lee Fields & the Expressions, Simon Stokes, Sonnymoon, and others

Music Picks: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Esperanza Spalding, Jack White

Also, the Crystelles, Arturo Sandoval, Backbiter and others

Music Picks: Bettye LaVette, Johnny Thunders, Johnny Hallyday

Also, Kate McGarry, Enter Shikari, Hype Williams and others

Music Picks: Funk-a-Palooza, Keith Jarrett, Ute Lemper & the Vogler Quartet

Also, Hot Snakes, Strange Boys, Ken Parker, Flash Express and others

Music Picks: Hugh Cornwell, Carlos Guitarlos, Zakir Hussain's Masters of Percussion

Also, Charlene Soraia, Chuck Loeb, the Head Cat, Feed Me and others

Music Picks: Lila Downs, Merle Haggard, I See Hawks in L.A., Die Antwoord

Also, Das Racist, Gonjasufi, Roky Erickson and others

Music Picks: X, Lucinda Williams, Jackie DeShannon, Fujiya & Miyagi

Also, Dengue Fever, Jessie Baylin, Reigning Sound, Black Bananas and others

Music Picks: Skrillex, Diplo, Wu-Tang Clan, The Health Club

Also, Art Lande, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Gilad Hekselman, The Stitches, The Villains and others

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Dublab Presents the Mysterious "Let Him In" Italo Disco Night at Hyperion Tavern

​The good folks at Dublab, easily the hardest working ecclectic DJs/event organizers in town, have barely recovered from last night's FREE KUTMAH benefit concert at the Echoplex, and they're already at it again tonight at the Hyperion Tavern in Silverlake. The event in question is the mysteri ... More >>